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15Md158: Excavations and Lithic Analysis of a Late Archaic/Early Woodland Lithic Workshop Site in Meade County, Kentucky.
… carried out at 15Md158, a prehistoric lithic workshop site in Meade County, Kentucky. Although there has been a wide range of diagnostic projectile points as well as some late radiocarbon dates recovered from the site had been identified as a mostly Late Archaic special purpose site …
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Lithic analysis of three Lowland Virgin Anasazi sites
Lithic analysis, including an intensive debitage analysis, provides answers to previously posed research questions for the Bovine Bluff (early-Pueblo II), Main Ridge (mid-Pueblo II), and Adam 2 (late-Pueblo II) sites in the Moapa Valley. At Bovine Bluff, an aceramic area appears to be the result of …
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Pushing the Limits: Testing, Magnetometry and Ontario Lithic Scatters
Lithic scatters, small ephemeral clusters of stone artifacts on cultivated surfaces, lie on the periphery of archaeology. These sites are often too ephemeral to be fully understood through standardized fieldwork methodologies mandated in Ontario CRM archaeology and yet, they are widely regarded as …
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Components of Acheulean Lithic Assemblage Variability at Olorgesailie, Kenya
The data presented here suggest that factors other than style generated inter- and intra-assemblage variability. In other words, distinct cultural traditions are not observed within or between Olorgesailie assemblages. Because most variability is attributed to raw material and resharpening …
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Paleoindian Chronology, Technology, and Lithic Resource Procurement at Nesquehoning Creek
… 2) analyzing the organization of Paleoindian lithic technology, and 3) examining Paleoindian residential mobility patterns in the Middle Atlantic and Northeast regions. The history of research at Nesquehoning Creek, Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene environmental data, and Paleoindian culture …
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Ground stone lithic technology of the Indian Peaks, Colorado, USA
Ground stone tools are a long-noted aspect of pre-contact archaeological assemblages from the high elevations (2975-3666 meters asl) of the Colorado Front Range (CFR). The tools are present in small frequencies at around 40% of the sites thus far recorded, and are typically present as heavily …
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Assessing "lithic sound" to predict a rock's ease of flaking
Objective information concerning "lithic sound's" properties of pitch, duration, and intensity, can inform archaeologists about a stone's candidacy for human use, and whether or not lithic material at a site has been heat treated. A hammer stone machine held and struck specimens under controlled …
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The Implications of Lithic Artifact Styles for Current Archaeological Theory
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Later Stone Age Lithic Raw Material Use at Lukenya Hill, Kenya
… study. Raw material and typology in lithic assemblages from GvJm62 and from sites GvJm16, GvJm19, GvJm22, and GvJm46 are described and compared. Electron microprobe analysis of obsidian artifacts from GvJm62 identified the source localities of raw materials. Differences in typology …
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Surface lithic scatters as an archaeological resource in South and Central Scotland
… bringing the reader up to date with how lithic studies have been conducted over the past three centuries. The disparate knowledge concerning scatters in Scotland led to the creation of the Scottish Lithic Scatters Project, which is outlined in chapter one. Of specific concern is the …
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WHY THE XWISTEN CROSSED THE RIVER: LITHIC TRANSPORT STRATEGIES ON THE CANADIAN PLATEAU
… the majority (often more than 75%) of many lithic assemblages in the Mid- Fraser region of south-western British Columbia. Most explanations for this have largely been insufficient for explaining the differential transport of lithic materials; no one has addressed why, in a lithic rich …
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A Lithic Raw Materials Study of the Bridge River Site, British Columbia, Canada
New excavations at the Bridge River Site were conducted over two seasons (2003, 2004), collecting over 16,000 artifacts, of which about 4,000 were from dated contexts. These dated materials were used for a materials study to look at settlement patterns, trade and prestige. The Bridge River Site is …
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WHY THE XWISTEN CROSSED THE RIVER: LITHIC TRANSPORT STRATEGIES ON THE CANADIAN PLATEAU
… the majority (often more than 75%) of many lithic assemblages in the Mid- Fraser region of south-western British Columbia. Most explanations for this have largely been insufficient for explaining the differential transport of lithic materials; no one has addressed why, in a lithic rich …
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A Lithic Raw Materials Study of the Bridge River Site, British Columbia, Canada
New excavations at the Bridge River Site were conducted over two seasons (2003, 2004), collecting over 16,000 artifacts, of which about 4,000 were from dated contexts. These dated materials were used for a materials study to look at settlement patterns, trade and prestige. The Bridge River Site is …
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Experiments to Measure the Effects of Timber Harvesting Equipment on Surface Lithic Scatters
… on the effects of timber harvesting on lithic scatters on Modoc National Forest. The experiments involved placement of 225 glass tiles (proxy lithics) in each of three plots subject to vehicle traffic and log dragging by steel-tracked and rubber-wheeled equipment. After the harvest, …
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Geological reconnaissance and provenancing of potential Neolithic lithic sources in the Maltese Islands
… identify the petrological characteristics of Neolithic chert artefacts associated with the Temple Period (c. 4000-2500 cal BC) and their probable sources from the local Maltese chert formation as well as the main possible chert sources in Sicily. Were the chert and flint materials used by …
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If Rocks Could Talk: Using Central Place Foraging Theory in Lithic Production and Utilization Research
… River Site. Specifically, it addresses the lithic production in regard to field processing and technological investment at the site. Field processing considers the importance of cost in transporting lithic raw material, while technological investment examines the amount of retouch and …
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If Rocks Could Talk: Using Central Place Foraging Theory in Lithic Production and Utilization Research
… River Site. Specifically, it addresses the lithic production in regard to field processing and technological investment at the site. Field processing considers the importance of cost in transporting lithic raw material, while technological investment examines the amount of retouch and …
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Variability in the Debitage of the Early Holocene Lithic Assemblages of the Sanders (45KT315) Site
… be used to address variability between the Lower Lithic Component (LLC) and the Middle Lithic Component (MLC). The results of the analysis were compared to expectations established by previous research. Directional changes in reduction stages, material type, presence of use wear, and the …
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